Good stuff. I really like how you I think correctly treat the Rockies - that in a lot of ways they're almost like an ocean that separates the country. SLC has much deeper ties to Vegas and Phoenix than Denver but fake maps really like to mash Utah and Colorado together.
Really only disagree with Illinois. Chicagoans would sooner be subsumed by Lake Michigan than be associated with "the south". And rural Illinois has pretty deep cultural, social, and economic ties to Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa. I can really only seem them being yellow or pink.
Good stuff. I really like how you I think correctly treat the Rockies - that in a lot of ways they're almost like an ocean that separates the country. SLC has much deeper ties to Vegas and Phoenix than Denver but fake maps really like to mash Utah and Colorado together.
Really only disagree with Illinois. Chicagoans would sooner be subsumed by Lake Michigan than be associated with "the south". And rural Illinois has pretty deep cultural, social, and economic ties to Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa. I can really only seem them being yellow or pink.